[Puppet Users] Re: Lock file /var/lib/puppet/state/puppetdlock

Jeff Adams
Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:58:52 -0000

We have had this happening occasionally (approx. 1 out of ~120 VMs,
every other week or so) on our OpenVZ VMs as well.

We''re running Debian Etch, and over the past week upgraded to 0.24.5-3,
so I''m keeping an eye on things to see if that resolved it for us.

- Jeff

Paul Lathrop wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Luke Kanies <luke@madstop.com>
wrote:
>> Otherwise....  I''ve no idea, because you''re the first
to run into it
>> that I know of.
>>
>> Note that you should be able to run ''puppetd
--enable'' to remove that
>> stale lock file.
>
> I periodically run into this issue as well; it only happens on our Xen
> VMs. Not sure if that helps.
>
> I just have a cron job that runs puppetd --enable on these systems.
>
> --Paul
>
> >